June 18, 1934 (8 pages)

Gi \ 14 Bares ~ : oe is eS A EY CERRADO ETERS NS Na a Bae ete SS as _ (Sm Lh LR I A OR I hi EGE A. Sats tae i Ma a Sadly Aan, At that RS EAD A Nal eS SOE ASB Ie: = Monday, Juné 18, 1934 THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET ett by oe ne = sea tietaaeeiaina il ~~~ \\ PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY TIES SSS STSCVVSE SSO OAS) By PETER B. KYNE OUTLAWS of EDEN Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne. WNU Service. CHAPTER X—Continued pele) 19, Manin “I did, sweetheart. Who'd shoot for you if I wouldn't?” “Good *clean shooting,” he’ mumbled. “but teo low. Did you get Babson?” “I tried and they wouldn't let me. But I smashed Henry Rookby’s fool head, dearest. He organized the ruckus at Babson's bidding, but if he ' lives after the two raps _I gave him with the barre) he’ll think twice before tackling another such job.” Nate Tichenor smiled a_ terrible smile. ‘We backfired on the, little cuss, didn’t we, love?” He placed an oily finger on her adorable nose and pressed {t. gently upward. “You'll do. You’te a. man’s woman. “I’m going over to the curb now and ‘sit! down before I fall down,. If. anybody takes me from behind shoot him—and shoot high and for the middle this time. I'm all out of patience. Look after old Rube.” Rube needed looking after, indeed. He was unconscious and a three-inch slit on the top *of his bald head told the story. Also he had received his share of punches and kicks before Lorry. Kershaw's bullets had dropped his assailants ‘on top of him.The two doctors carried him over to the little grassy strip that ran parallel with the sidewalk and laid him out. thereon, then turned to look after Lorry’s vicetims. As they sat up, Joe Brainerd Photographed them. When that was done he wrote the names of the fallen on a fragment of copy paper and, in his mind, began arranging the lead for this, his biggest news story. “Gét a truck out of that garage. Joe,~ Doce Donaldson. ordered, “and we'll Haul our trade over onto the grass. under the shade trees in the plaza. I’ve used worse dressing stations. Every mother’s son of them got it through the foreleg and some of the said legs are busted. ‘I only wingtipped them,’ says she—the little vixen,” “You've got to grant her the great gift of charity, Doe. And tremendous forbearance.” “Rats. She was saving them for the hangman. Hello, her hired man is beginn-:ng to take an interest in things.” Mr. Tensey’s litthe round baleful eyes had, indeed, commenced to flicker. Lorry vent over him and raised his burly head to her shoulder. “How about you, old-timer?” she crooned. “Shot all to pieces but not fatally,” Mr. Tenney murmured slowly, “Where wus you, boss, when the shootin’ Sturted? I figgered you to guard my fear.” “I guarded it, never fear, Rube. I _did all the shooting.” » erdy —!" Mr, Tenney murmured. “Sorry. Spoke out o' my ‘turn, I reckon. I'll be up in a minute; I'll make a hand yet.” A small boy came running down the boulevard as if pursued by a demon. “There's some fellers over to the office of the Register smashin’ things up,” he ecreeched, Lorry dropped his big body was scorching her and fin tor the office of the Register a Block away, As she came panting tothe front door she saw a dozen men inside, with axes. They had smashed the editorial desk and the counter in the business oflice, pied the type for the next issue of the Register, upset the fonts of type and smashed them and were busy wrecking the linotype when the girl’s voice reached them above the clang of axes on metal, “Put ’em up!” They whirled, facing her, and_ before the menace of her gun their hands went skyward. Thus she held them until Brainerd arrived with his camera. “Mug ’em, Brother Brainerd,” she commanded. “Steady, boys. Not a move out of anybody. I'll put a bullet through the hand of the man that apoils this picture. This is a time exposure, I believe, because the inside light isn't so good.” Joe Brainerd took three photographs of the vandals in his wrecked print shop and turned to the girl. “Where go we .go from here?’ he demanded bumorously. “To. Bill Rooney’s. calaboose. All right, men, Come out, one at a time, in single file and wend your way to the lockup.” ‘They wended it. Bill Rooney was in his little jail office, thinking things over and gazing dolorously at a hole in a forty-dollar hat, when men began filing silently in on him. “What's this?” he exclaimed, Lorry’s gun covered him from the doorway. , “Take his gun, Mr, BrainTake his keys, too: No, nonsense, Mr Rooney, or you'll dance ro my music again.” Brainerd secured the deputy sheriff’s gun and keys, unlocked the two cells and closed them again as the wreckers of the Register filed disconsolately in,. Then Lorry ordered Mr. Rooney to go home to his famfly, and Joe Brainerd locked the jail. “The remainder of this party is yours, Mr, Brainerd.” Lorry then ‘an: nounced. “I've got my boys to look after now.” “Thanks @ Jot, ALSS Noiv .Y Rube Tenney as if . for fossils, “Not at all. No trouble to show goods,” she retorted merrily. “If I were you I'd see that old idiot, Anson Towle, and swear out’ warrants enough’ for ‘these twelve lunatics to keep them in jail till Christmas. I’d scare Towle if I were you. Threaten him with a mysterious fate so he'll inake their bail the limit.” _ “Babson will bail them out, course.” of “IT suppose so, but ‘he’ll not like it.: The action will tie him to his gang.” CHAPTER XI The succeeding week Nate Tichenor spent ina hospital at Gold Run whither Iloctor Donaldson had ordered him for observation as to possible internal tnjuries. When at last Nate came to the Circle K ranch again, Lorry saw that, outwardly at least, ne appeared to be normal, “Doc thought my backbone had been tramped out of alignment,” he announced, as he kissed her, “but it was only a couple of ribs sprung loose from my spine. Doe warned me not to move around, but I couldn't stay away. . Outlaw that I am, I couldn't. neglect you for another week.” : “I wasn’t ready to be a clinging vine; I’m accustomed to man’s work— and if you're worth having Mr. Tichenor, you’re worth fighting for. I enjoyed it.” “Y’m almost afraid to marry yon now,” he teased. “You'd be a tough wife to handle in a family, row. Have you been arrested yet?” “No, dear. Joe Brainerd appears to have smoothed over the aftermath of that ruckus. He traded with Babson. Babson loaned him the new plant of the Forlorn Valley Citizen and then “But . Am Curious to Know How You Accumulated All the Money You Appear to Have.” had a talk -with the men we failed. Babson levied an assessment to pay for the damages to Brainerd’s plant, and Joe absented himself at the preliminary hearing of the case,:so Anson Towle waited five minutes for Joe and his counsel. to appear and then turned the men loose for lack of evidence. The men I winged are all going to get well, although they’ll be on crutches for a month or two; I think they are glad to let the matter drop, We've all had enough undesirable advertising throughout the state.” “As for undesirable advertising, you and I haven't had any of it. .We’re heroes.” “Oh, do tell me, Nate, I’ve been afraid to read the papers.” “When a mob sacks a newspaper plant the entire fourth estate regards the act as a direct blow at the freedom of the press, and instantly the fight is no longer a private one. The Gold Run Nugget has burned Forlorn Valley to a crisp and so have all the other. county newspapers,. The Forlorn Valleyites have heen called thugs, mur-. derers, bad citizens, rioters, bullies, and cowards. I am advertised as a peaceable, well-meaning citizen and a distinguished ex-soldier of whom the county is proud. I sought to do Forlorn Valley a signal service and was mobbed and brutally beaten and bruised in return. All of the papers have cried out upon the senseless brutality of visiting upon a blameless young man the sins of his forebears—and.’ they have done as much for. you. [In fact, they've made a heroine of you. You are commend: ed for your great charity in ‘wingtipping’ my assailants instead of killing them You have a nickname, You’re Wing-TipLorry Kershaw now.” She turned to him suddenly, “But I am curious to know how you “ac. cumulated all the money you appear to have.For. you do look like cash money, Nate.” “Well, the fact that I have a few dollars doesn’t imply that I'm a financier,” he protested. ‘The Hensleys had great veneration for cash but I’m only nalf Hensley. My father was a. paleontologist. He came up into these hills one summer to hunt Nothing would do but he must be our -guést and have a horse to ride into the hills and a man to orotect him frem the Ker luis, A A AI A I AS SE SE NE LS I I A EL A A A tk a lL A a a A a a A a Da ia nn A Ln a a a A i a ln LL I a a Mn a Me Ml Ml fe te ht i, a in tt hs Me tn “My mother was twenty-four years old at the time and already beginning to be regarded .as.a fossil, so father added her to his collection and stayed on in Eden Valley and wrote somé books nobody ever read, and resolutely refused to learn the cow business. He did manage to put a little bit of culture And uplift into the Hensleys. I made up my mind to stay out of Eden Valley and forget cows as a first aid to making a million dollars. “When my mother and aunts died I was the sole heir to the Bar H Land and Cattle cgmpuny, and: the corporation was in excellent shape. There was about two hundred thousand dollars {n the bank and no debts; there were twelve thousand head of cattle and the ranch was unencumbered. I decided to sell the cattle and lease the ranch. Rube Tenney, who was in command of the ranch, classed the cattle, so I knew what I had and what they were worth. I wrote my attorney to see your father and try to make a trade, It seemed the fair thing to do to let him have first chance. He’d always wanted all of Eden Valley. So he bought all. the cattle and leased the Bar H ranch for thirty thousand dollars a year, for five years, with an option to. buy the ranch at any time prior to the expiration of the lease and on -very easy terms. “The result was that early in 1920 I found myself foot-loose and with . about a million dollars cash in bank, Now, while I was in France I secured a commission. My captain and I got along splendidly together. I got to know this man and to trust him and admire him. In civil life he’d been general manager of a large New York stock brokerage house. He had ‘about fifty thousand dollars and he wanted to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and go into .business for himself. But he didn’t. have enough mouey to buy the seat and finance his operations, ‘I told him I'd finance him—one hundred thousand dollars in cash against his fifty thousand in cash, his experience and ability, and we should be equal partners. We made money from the day we opened our doors.” “And you say you’re not a financier.” “The lust for money’ has never overwhelmed me. I find, too, that I love Eden Valley. I’m going ‘to close out my interests in New York and return here in the fall,” “I shall be very lonely while you are away, Nate.” “And that. reminds me that I’ye sent down to San Francisco for a ring and here it is. If it’s too big we'll have a tuck taken in, and if it’s too small or you prefer some. other stone I’ll change it.” And he slipped on her finger a square emerald worth at least a hundred steers. It was the first piece of jewelry she had ever owned and her hot tears of emotion “paptized it; her warm lips caressed it in a silent promise he knew would never be broken, “Suppose we get married in a hurry and make the New York trip a honeymoon,” he said. She shook her head. “Impossible until dad’s estate has ‘been settled. I can’t leave here now. I have to work this outfit out of debt, because I can’t afford a trousseau until I do However,, dear, you run on to New York, complete your business. there, and when you return we’ll'make those two mergers you spoke of. I’m too busy now. I’ve got a lot of those early calves still to brand and Ill have to brand about a thousand late calves in the fall. I don’t want to leave any worries behind me when we go on our honeymoon.” “And we'll spend our summers in Eden Valley and our winters outside,” he suggested. ‘She leaned against him a little wearily and held him tight but did not answer, : * s s LJ a * s Somebody once remarked that nothing can be of surpassing interest for a period greater than nine days. For forty-eight hours following the unex: pectedly painful and highly dramatic denouement of his plan to sway pubHic opinion against Nate Tichenor and Lorry Kershaw, Silas Babson suffered acutely, not because he wis sorry for what he had done but because the effect had been:so wholly unexpected and pregnant of disaster to him. After having arranged to prevent the expose of the whole affair in court with probuble penitentiary sentences for a couple of dozen hitherto respectable but mercurial citizens, he began to view life with a less jaundiced eye; and when, at the expiration of the proverbial nine duys, he felt morally certain that “that Eden Valley gang,” as he now referred to Nate, Lorry and Rube Tenney, was going to cling to its ancient tradition and have nothing whatsoever to do with legal reprisals, all of his old jauntiness and optimism returned. He waited two weeks ionger and when at the expiration of that period Henry Rookby, looking faintly reminiscent of a potato sprout put forth in a cellar, returned to his labors, Babson left the business of the bank in Mr, Rookby’s hands and proceeded to motor forth among the Forlorn Valleyites and argue them into signing the petition to the county board of supervisors for permission to organize the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district. Having had a surveyor de-limit the areas susceptible to surface irrigation, he knew the identity of every farmer whose signature was necessary for his purpose, so a week’s tithe sufficed to acquire the number of signatures legally necessary, and at the next regular meeting of the board of supervisors, of which Babson was a member, he presented the petition in person and addressed his colleagues at some length and. with unusual eloquence on the desirability of favorable action by the board. The chairman of the board rapped with his gavel. “The pros appear to have their innings,” he announced smilingly. “Are there any cons to be heard from?” A man rose in the rear of the hall, walked up to the railing in front of the dais upon which the board sat, and bowed first to the board and then to the audience. “Mr. Chairman—gentlemen: My name is John W, Gagan, a member of the San Francisco law firm of Brooks, Gagan and Brooks, and I appear as the legal representative of the three riparian owners along Eden Valley creek, to wit, Estate of Ranceford Kershaw, deceased, the Bar H Land and Cattle company, and the Mountain Valley Power company, the last two companies, as is generally known, being owned in their entirety by Mr. Nathan Tichenor. On behalf of my clients, I desire formally to protest to this honorable board against the formation of the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district and will state my reasons briefly.” Gagan immediately proceded to do so, painting to his auditors precisely the picture that Nate Tichenor had painted to him, challenging Lon Morton to gainsay one single legal state ment. Gagan spoke simply, earnestly, arraying his facts in logical sequence. When he had finished his address Gagan bowed to the board and started to leave the chamber, There was silence until he was-.half way down the aisle, then a storm of hisses and bous broke around him, Gagan looked back as he reached the door and saw that Silas Babson was on his feet, his hand raised for silence. “So you’re going to refute my statement, eh?” Gagan called back. ‘Well, before I depart Ill give you and your deluded followers some very good advice, free. The man who atts as his own attorney has a fool for a client.” TO BE CONTINUED. 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Gi \ 14 Bares ~ : oe is eS A EY CERRADO ETERS NS Na a Bae ete SS as _ (Sm Lh LR I A OR I hi EGE A. Sats tae i Ma a Sadly Aan, At that RS EAD A Nal eS SOE ASB Ie: = Monday, Juné 18, 1934 THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET ett by oe ne = sea tietaaeeiaina il ~~~ \\ PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY TIES SSS STSCVVSE SSO OAS) By PETER B. KYNE OUTLAWS of EDEN Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne. WNU Service. CHAPTER X—Continued pele) 19, Manin “I did, sweetheart. Who'd shoot for you if I wouldn't?” “Good *clean shooting,” he’ mumbled. “but teo low. Did you get Babson?” “I tried and they wouldn't let me. But I smashed Henry Rookby’s fool head, dearest. He organized the ruckus at Babson's bidding, but if he ' lives after the two raps _I gave him with the barre) he’ll think twice before tackling another such job.” Nate Tichenor smiled a_ terrible smile. ‘We backfired on the, little cuss, didn’t we, love?” He placed an oily finger on her adorable nose and pressed {t. gently upward. “You'll do. You’te a. man’s woman. “I’m going over to the curb now and ‘sit! down before I fall down,. If. anybody takes me from behind shoot him—and shoot high and for the middle this time. I'm all out of patience. Look after old Rube.” Rube needed looking after, indeed. He was unconscious and a three-inch slit on the top *of his bald head told the story. Also he had received his share of punches and kicks before Lorry. Kershaw's bullets had dropped his assailants ‘on top of him.The two doctors carried him over to the little grassy strip that ran parallel with the sidewalk and laid him out. thereon, then turned to look after Lorry’s vicetims. As they sat up, Joe Brainerd Photographed them. When that was done he wrote the names of the fallen on a fragment of copy paper and, in his mind, began arranging the lead for this, his biggest news story. “Gét a truck out of that garage. Joe,~ Doce Donaldson. ordered, “and we'll Haul our trade over onto the grass. under the shade trees in the plaza. I’ve used worse dressing stations. Every mother’s son of them got it through the foreleg and some of the said legs are busted. ‘I only wingtipped them,’ says she—the little vixen,” “You've got to grant her the great gift of charity, Doe. And tremendous forbearance.” “Rats. She was saving them for the hangman. Hello, her hired man is beginn-:ng to take an interest in things.” Mr. Tensey’s litthe round baleful eyes had, indeed, commenced to flicker. Lorry vent over him and raised his burly head to her shoulder. “How about you, old-timer?” she crooned. “Shot all to pieces but not fatally,” Mr. Tenney murmured slowly, “Where wus you, boss, when the shootin’ Sturted? I figgered you to guard my fear.” “I guarded it, never fear, Rube. I _did all the shooting.” » erdy —!" Mr, Tenney murmured. “Sorry. Spoke out o' my ‘turn, I reckon. I'll be up in a minute; I'll make a hand yet.” A small boy came running down the boulevard as if pursued by a demon. “There's some fellers over to the office of the Register smashin’ things up,” he ecreeched, Lorry dropped his big body was scorching her and fin tor the office of the Register a Block away, As she came panting tothe front door she saw a dozen men inside, with axes. They had smashed the editorial desk and the counter in the business oflice, pied the type for the next issue of the Register, upset the fonts of type and smashed them and were busy wrecking the linotype when the girl’s voice reached them above the clang of axes on metal, “Put ’em up!” They whirled, facing her, and_ before the menace of her gun their hands went skyward. Thus she held them until Brainerd arrived with his camera. “Mug ’em, Brother Brainerd,” she commanded. “Steady, boys. Not a move out of anybody. I'll put a bullet through the hand of the man that apoils this picture. This is a time exposure, I believe, because the inside light isn't so good.” Joe Brainerd took three photographs of the vandals in his wrecked print shop and turned to the girl. “Where go we .go from here?’ he demanded bumorously. “To. Bill Rooney’s. calaboose. All right, men, Come out, one at a time, in single file and wend your way to the lockup.” ‘They wended it. Bill Rooney was in his little jail office, thinking things over and gazing dolorously at a hole in a forty-dollar hat, when men began filing silently in on him. “What's this?” he exclaimed, Lorry’s gun covered him from the doorway. , “Take his gun, Mr, BrainTake his keys, too: No, nonsense, Mr Rooney, or you'll dance ro my music again.” Brainerd secured the deputy sheriff’s gun and keys, unlocked the two cells and closed them again as the wreckers of the Register filed disconsolately in,. Then Lorry ordered Mr. Rooney to go home to his famfly, and Joe Brainerd locked the jail. “The remainder of this party is yours, Mr, Brainerd.” Lorry then ‘an: nounced. “I've got my boys to look after now.” “Thanks @ Jot, ALSS Noiv ..Y Rube Tenney as if . for fossils, “Not at all. No trouble to show goods,” she retorted merrily. “If I were you I'd see that old idiot, Anson Towle, and swear out’ warrants enough’ for ‘these twelve lunatics to keep them in jail till Christmas. I’d scare Towle if I were you. Threaten him with a mysterious fate so he'll inake their bail the limit.” _ “Babson will bail them out, course.” of “IT suppose so, but ‘he’ll not like it.: The action will tie him to his gang.” CHAPTER XI The succeeding week Nate Tichenor spent ina hospital at Gold Run whither Iloctor Donaldson had ordered him for observation as to possible internal tnjuries. When at last Nate came to the Circle K ranch again, Lorry saw that, outwardly at least, ne appeared to be normal, “Doc thought my backbone had been tramped out of alignment,” he announced, as he kissed her, “but it was only a couple of ribs sprung loose from my spine. Doe warned me not to move around, but I couldn't stay away. . Outlaw that I am, I couldn't. neglect you for another week.” : “I wasn’t ready to be a clinging vine; I’m accustomed to man’s work— and if you're worth having Mr. Tichenor, you’re worth fighting for. I enjoyed it.” “Y’m almost afraid to marry yon now,” he teased. “You'd be a tough wife to handle in a family, row. Have you been arrested yet?” “No, dear. Joe Brainerd appears to have smoothed over the aftermath of that ruckus. He traded with Babson. Babson loaned him the new plant of the Forlorn Valley Citizen and then “But . Am Curious to Know How You Accumulated All the Money You Appear to Have.” had a talk -with the men we failed. Babson levied an assessment to pay for the damages to Brainerd’s plant, and Joe absented himself at the preliminary hearing of the case,:so Anson Towle waited five minutes for Joe and his counsel. to appear and then turned the men loose for lack of evidence. The men I winged are all going to get well, although they’ll be on crutches for a month or two; I think they are glad to let the matter drop, We've all had enough undesirable advertising throughout the state.” “As for undesirable advertising, you and I haven't had any of it. .We’re heroes.” “Oh, do tell me, Nate, I’ve been afraid to read the papers.” “When a mob sacks a newspaper plant the entire fourth estate regards the act as a direct blow at the freedom of the press, and instantly the fight is no longer a private one. The Gold Run Nugget has burned Forlorn Valley to a crisp and so have all the other. county newspapers,. The Forlorn Valleyites have heen called thugs, mur-. derers, bad citizens, rioters, bullies, and cowards. I am advertised as a peaceable, well-meaning citizen and a distinguished ex-soldier of whom the county is proud. I sought to do Forlorn Valley a signal service and was mobbed and brutally beaten and bruised in return. All of the papers have cried out upon the senseless brutality of visiting upon a blameless young man the sins of his forebears—and.’ they have done as much for. you. [In fact, they've made a heroine of you. You are commend: ed for your great charity in ‘wingtipping’ my assailants instead of killing them You have a nickname, You’re Wing-TipLorry Kershaw now.” She turned to him suddenly, “But I am curious to know how you “ac. cumulated all the money you appear to have.For. you do look like cash money, Nate.” “Well, the fact that I have a few dollars doesn’t imply that I'm a financier,” he protested. ‘The Hensleys had great veneration for cash but I’m only nalf Hensley. My father was a. paleontologist. He came up into these hills one summer to hunt Nothing would do but he must be our -guést and have a horse to ride into the hills and a man to orotect him frem the Ker luis, A A AI A I AS SE SE NE LS I I A EL A A A tk a lL A a a A a a A a Da ia nn A Ln a a a A i a ln LL I a a Mn a Me Ml Ml fe te ht i, a in tt hs Me tn “My mother was twenty-four years old at the time and already beginning to be regarded .as.a fossil, so father added her to his collection and stayed on in Eden Valley and wrote somé books nobody ever read, and resolutely refused to learn the cow business. He did manage to put a little bit of culture And uplift into the Hensleys. I made up my mind to stay out of Eden Valley and forget cows as a first aid to making a million dollars. “When my mother and aunts died I was the sole heir to the Bar H Land and Cattle cgmpuny, and: the corporation was in excellent shape. There was about two hundred thousand dollars {n the bank and no debts; there were twelve thousand head of cattle and the ranch was unencumbered. I decided to sell the cattle and lease the ranch. Rube Tenney, who was in command of the ranch, classed the cattle, so I knew what I had and what they were worth. I wrote my attorney to see your father and try to make a trade, It seemed the fair thing to do to let him have first chance. He’d always wanted all of Eden Valley. So he bought all. the cattle and leased the Bar H ranch for thirty thousand dollars a year, for five years, with an option to. buy the ranch at any time prior to the expiration of the lease and on -very easy terms. “The result was that early in 1920 I found myself foot-loose and with . about a million dollars cash in bank, Now, while I was in France I secured a commission. My captain and I got along splendidly together. I got to know this man and to trust him and admire him. In civil life he’d been general manager of a large New York stock brokerage house. He had ‘about fifty thousand dollars and he wanted to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and go into .business for himself. But he didn’t. have enough mouey to buy the seat and finance his operations, ‘I told him I'd finance him—one hundred thousand dollars in cash against his fifty thousand in cash, his experience and ability, and we should be equal partners. We made money from the day we opened our doors.” “And you say you’re not a financier.” “The lust for money’ has never overwhelmed me. I find, too, that I love Eden Valley. I’m going ‘to close out my interests in New York and return here in the fall,” “I shall be very lonely while you are away, Nate.” “And that. reminds me that I’ye sent down to San Francisco for a ring and here it is. If it’s too big we'll have a tuck taken in, and if it’s too small or you prefer some. other stone I’ll change it.” And he slipped on her finger a square emerald worth at least a hundred steers. It was the first piece of jewelry she had ever owned and her hot tears of emotion “paptized it; her warm lips caressed it in a silent promise he knew would never be broken, “Suppose we get married in a hurry and make the New York trip a honeymoon,” he said. She shook her head. “Impossible until dad’s estate has ‘been settled. I can’t leave here now. I have to work this outfit out of debt, because I can’t afford a trousseau until I do However,, dear, you run on to New York, complete your business. there, and when you return we’ll'make those two mergers you spoke of. I’m too busy now. I’ve got a lot of those early calves still to brand and Ill have to brand about a thousand late

calves in the fall. I don’t want to leave any worries behind me when we go on our honeymoon.” “And we'll spend our summers in Eden Valley and our winters outside,” he suggested. ‘She leaned against him a little wearily and held him tight but did not answer, : * s s LJ a * s Somebody once remarked that nothing can be of surpassing interest for a period greater than nine days. For forty-eight hours following the unex: pectedly painful and highly dramatic denouement of his plan to sway pubHic opinion against Nate Tichenor and Lorry Kershaw, Silas Babson suffered acutely, not because he wis sorry for what he had done but because the effect had been:so wholly unexpected and pregnant of disaster to him. After having arranged to prevent the expose of the whole affair in court with probuble penitentiary sentences for a couple of dozen hitherto respectable but mercurial citizens, he began to view life with a less jaundiced eye; and when, at the expiration of the proverbial nine duys, he felt morally certain that “that Eden Valley gang,” as he now referred to Nate, Lorry and Rube Tenney, was going to cling to its ancient tradition and have nothing whatsoever to do with legal reprisals, all of his old jauntiness and optimism returned. He waited two weeks ionger and when at the expiration of that period Henry Rookby, looking faintly reminiscent of a potato sprout put forth in a cellar, returned to his labors, Babson left the business of the bank in Mr, Rookby’s hands and proceeded to motor forth among the Forlorn Valleyites and argue them into signing the petition to the county board of supervisors for permission to organize the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district. Having had a surveyor de-limit the areas susceptible to surface irrigation, he knew the identity of every farmer whose signature was necessary for his purpose, so a week’s tithe sufficed to acquire the number of signatures legally necessary, and at the next regular meeting of the board of supervisors, of which Babson was a member, he presented the petition in person and addressed his colleagues at some length and. with unusual eloquence on the desirability of favorable action by the board. The chairman of the board rapped with his gavel. “The pros appear to have their innings,” he announced smilingly. “Are there any cons to be heard from?” A man rose in the rear of the hall, walked up to the railing in front of the dais upon which the board sat, and bowed first to the board and then to the audience. “Mr. Chairman—gentlemen: My name is John W, Gagan, a member of the San Francisco law firm of Brooks, Gagan and Brooks, and I appear as the legal representative of the three riparian owners along Eden Valley creek, to wit, Estate of Ranceford Kershaw, deceased, the Bar H Land and Cattle company, and the Mountain Valley Power company, the last two companies, as is generally known, being owned in their entirety by Mr. Nathan Tichenor. On behalf of my clients, I desire formally to protest to this honorable board against the formation of the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district and will state my reasons briefly.” Gagan immediately proceded to do so, painting to his auditors precisely the picture that Nate Tichenor had painted to him, challenging Lon Morton to gainsay one single legal state ment. Gagan spoke simply, earnestly, arraying his facts in logical sequence. When he had finished his address Gagan bowed to the board and started to leave the chamber, There was silence until he was-.half way down the aisle, then a storm of hisses and bous broke around him, Gagan looked back as he reached the door and saw that Silas Babson was on his feet, his hand raised for silence. “So you’re going to refute my statement, eh?” Gagan called back. ‘Well, before I depart Ill give you and your deluded followers some very good advice, free. The man who atts as his own attorney has a fool for a client.” TO BE CONTINUED. (SSAAASASASAASSASAASSAAAASAAAAAAALAALASLASAAAAASAAANALASAA Soe Insects Take Huge Toll in Damage to Books, According to Some Librarians Insects of various kinds take a year. ly toll in book destruction that amounts to millions of dollars, says Scientific American. Perhaps . the worst offenders in this respect are bookworms, the larvae and an insect known generally us the “drug store beetle.” and scientifically as Sitodrepa panicea. It seems to have a particular fondness for practically everything, and thrives on arsenic, lead, pepper, and other poisonous and _irritating substances, Once this beetle lays its eggs in a library and the larvae begin feeding, librarians are likely to age overnight, for the larvae feed voraciously on all parts of books whether they be cheap modern editions or priceless ancient volumes. Many poisons have been used, by various methods of applica: tion, to defeat this foe of books Thomas. M. lTiams of the Henry KE. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif., in the Library Quarterly, told of several infestations of the larvae in that "brary and the attempts to. destroy them, ‘pressure wind tunnel. Acting on the advice of Dr. ‘Tracy I. Storer of the University of California Agricultural college, hydrocyanic acid gas and several other powerful fumigants were used but with indifferent success. It was then decided to resort to vacuum fumigation. This would give perfect fumigation into every crevice of books, of which large t numbers could be fumigated simultaneously. Also, this method would deStroy the microscopic eggs of the beetle, as well as the larvae, by rupturing the thin membrane at one end of the .egg and permitting entry of the poison gas. The problem of an ideal fumigant was solved when Dr.Arnold ©. Beckman of the California Institute of Technology, discovered that ethylene oxide and carbon dioxide could be combined in a Huuid that is neither inflammable nor. cxplosive. 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